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SNAP HOOK'FOR SUSPENDER BUCKLES.

No. 345,819. Patented July 20, 1886.

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UNITED STATES yPATENT OErIcEo CALVIN VOORHIS, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ABRAHAM SHENFIELD, OF SAME PLACE.l

SPECIFICATION forming pari. of Letters Patent No. 345,819, dated July 20, 1886.

Application tiled April 23, 1386. Serial No. 100,890. (No model.)

T0 all whom z' may concern:

Be it known that I, CALVIN VOORIIIS, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Snap-Hooks for Suspender-Buckles, &c., of which the followingis a specification.

Hooks have heretofore been made for suspenderbuckles in which there is a transverse slot for the reception ofthe suspender-end or the head to the same, and at the other end there is a rigid hook, into which is passed the ring or loop ofthe suspender-buckle, and this rigid hook has been closed by a swinging lever-plate that is acted upon by a spring. Under some circumstances the spring is liable to become bent or set so that it does not retain the plate in its proper position against thehook,and the ring or loop of the suspenderbuckle is liable to become detached. I Inake use of a compound hook formed of two parts, cach hook having an inclination at one edge, so that when the two inclined parts of the hook are brought together a complete catch is formed for the ring or loop upon the suspender-buckle, and should these two parts of the hook become partially separated the ring will tend to draw the parts together in consequence ofthe two parts of the hook catching in different directions upon the ring.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the snap-hook complete. elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a Vertical section through the hooks. These figures are all in enlarged size.

The body of the hook is made of a metal plate having a mortise at 2 for the reception of the suspender end or strap, which passes around the bar 3 in the ordinary Inanner, and this metal plate forms the back 4.- of the snaphook, and there are side flanges, 5, bent up at right angles to the back 4:, and the end of this plate terminates as a hook, 6, one edge of which is in a plane at right angles to the back 4, and the other edge of the said hook is in a diagonal line passing across from the pointof the hook to the opposite edge of the' back 4,

as at 7.

The second portion of this snap-hook is a .flanges the pivot-pin 12 passes.

Fig. 2 is an.

plate having a body, 8,with a thumb-piece, 9, at one end, side fianges, 10, that pass down outside of the flanges 5, and through which this plate is formed as a hook, 13, the counterpart of the hook 6, one edge ofsaid hook being in a plane at right angles to the plate 8, and the other edge of said hook is in a diagonal line passing across from the point of the hook to the other edge ofthe plate 8, so that said hooks 6 and 13 set together and form a loop adapted to the reception of a ring orloop upon the buckle or suspender. A portion of said ring or loop is represented at 17, Fig. 2.

Vhen the thumbpiece 9 is pressed upon, the hook 13 is swung away from the hook 6, and a space is left between the two hooks for the insertion of the ring orloop 17.

Under the ordinary circumstances of use the ring or loop 17 catches in both the hooks 6 and 13, and the tension upon the suspender tends to close the hooks and draw them into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2. It is, however, preferable to make use ot' a spring vthat tends to press the hooks together. Suchspring may be a coil of wire around the pivot 12, with the diverging ends acting against theinner faces of the plate 4 and thumb-piece 9, respectively, such spring being similar to the spring made use of in snap-hooks and stocking-supporters; but I prefer to make use of a block ot' rubber, 20, held in place lbetween the ilanges 5 and the lip 21, that is formed by bending up a portion of the sheet metal in forming theInortise 2, and there may be triangular wings 23 at the ends of thelip 21, to steady the end ot' the rubber block at this part. This rubber block 2O is preferable to the coil-springs, as it acts upon the inner face ot' the plate 8 and The end ot' thumb-piece 9, and it is not liable to be in' Y jured by the pressure upon the same.

I claim as Iny inventionl. The combination, with the plate fi and its hook 6, having a beveled edge, of the plate S, hook 13, having a beveled edge and the re spective flanges 5 and l0, and the pivotpin 12, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a snap-hook, of two metal plates with iianges turned up on their l block of rnbber'forming the spring, and the 1o edges, apivot-pin passing through said anges, lips of sheet metal for retaining such block of interlocking hooks with diagonal edges at the rubber, substantially as set forth.

ends of the'plates, and a spring to close the Signed by me this 20th day of April, A. l).

fr, hooks, substantially as set forth. 1886.

3. The combination, in asnap-hool, of two CALVIN VOORHIS. plates with flanges on their edges, a pivot-pin Vitnesses: passing through VYthe anges, similar hooks GEO. T. PINOKNEY,

with diagonal edges adjacent to each other, a l WILLIAM G. MoTT. 

